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Three Bengals crash the top four as Burrow takes Week 8 by five points
Joe Burrow scored 42.5, Tee Higgins 37.5 and Ja'Marr Chase 31.1: 111.1 PPR points from one Cincinnati shootout, and three of the week's four 30-point games.
42.5
Burrow's points, the most of the week
5.0
Burrow's edge over Higgins
27.6
points needed for the top 10
4
players with 30 or more
Only four players cleared 30 PPR points in Week 8. Three of them wore Cincinnati stripes and played in the same game. Joe Burrow led the week with 42.5 points, Tee Higgins finished second with 37.5 and Ja'Marr Chase was fourth with 31.1.
That is 111.1 points from one quarterback and his two receivers in a 43–36 win over Tennessee. Anyone who stacked the Bengals this week had the best afternoon on the board.
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Burrow completed 38 of 48 passes for 462 yards and five touchdowns, and added a rushing score on three carries. He also threw three interceptions, and still beat the next-best player by 5.0 points. Six total touchdowns covered a lot of mistakes.
Higgins and Chase did most of the catching. Higgins caught 10 of his 11 targets for 155 yards and two touchdowns, with a long of 32. Chase caught 11 of 16 for 141 yards and a score. Together they accounted for 21 of Burrow's 38 completions, 296 of his 462 yards and three of his five touchdown passes.
The split matters for fantasy managers. Chase drew the heavier volume with 16 targets. Higgins turned nearly every look into a catch and found the end zone twice, which is why he finished 6.4 points ahead of his teammate.
A second half that kept going
Burrow had 177 passing yards at halftime. He threw for 285 after it, and the game ran into overtime. The board shows how it built. Chase put up 14.9 points in a single quarter while Burrow climbed, then Brock Bowers briefly took the lead at 28.2. By the fourth quarter Higgins had moved to the top.
Overtime settled it. Burrow's sixth touchdown pushed him to 42.5 and left the Bengals at first, second and fourth.
The other side of that game paid too. Tony Pollard ran 21 times for 117 yards and two touchdowns for 28.7 points, sixth on the week, including 15.6 in one quarter. Cam Ward threw for 304 yards and two scores without an interception for 26.3, 13th overall. Five players from one game finished in the top 13.
The rest of the early window
The one player who split the Bengals was Tyler Allgeier. He scored 19.7 points in the fourth quarter alone, the biggest single quarter of the week, and finished third with 36.1. He needed only 11 carries for 147 yards and a touchdown, with a 63-yard long, and caught all five targets for 44 yards and another score in Arizona's 33–30 win at Dallas. Teammate Michael Wilson added 26.8 on 15 targets.
Bhayshul Tuten scored 29.9 in Jacksonville's 42–7 rout of Indianapolis, with a rushing and a receiving touchdown. The Raiders sent two players into the top 10 from their 38–33 win over the Jets: Bowers caught 7 of 10 targets for 92 yards and two scores, and Kirk Cousins threw three touchdowns without an interception and ran one in. Both finished at 28.2. On the other side, Adonai Mitchell turned seven catches into 142 yards and 27.2 points.
Nobody else came close
The later windows never threatened the top. Patrick Mahomes led the late Sunday games with 25.4 on 321 yards and three touchdowns in a 28–24 loss at Denver. Emmett Johnson, his teammate, scored 19.1 in one quarter on his way to 25.3, almost all of it from five catches for 128 yards and a 73-yard long.
Sunday night peaked with Jayden Daniels at 15.0. Thursday belonged to Chuba Hubbard at 24.9. Monday night went to D'Andre Swift, who scored 27.9 on 69 rushing yards because he found the end zone three times, 15.0 of it in the fourth quarter. That was enough for ninth.
It took 27.6 points to make the top 10 this week, Josh Allen's total in Buffalo's 36–10 win over Baltimore. Thirty players cleared 20.
The stack that won the week
Burrow's 42.5 heads the list, but the Cincinnati story is about all three. Higgins, Chase and Burrow combined for 111.1 points, and every one of Burrow's passing touchdowns that went to his top two receivers counted twice for anyone holding the set. The Bengals took three of the week's four 30-point games, and they did it in the same afternoon.
The top 10
- Joe Burrow (QB, CIN) — 42.5
- Tee Higgins (WR, CIN) — 37.5
- Tyler Allgeier (RB, ARI) — 36.1
- Ja'Marr Chase (WR, CIN) — 31.1
- Bhayshul Tuten (RB, JAX) — 29.9
- Tony Pollard (RB, TEN) — 28.7
- Brock Bowers (TE, LV) — 28.2
- Kirk Cousins (QB, LV) — 28.2
- D'Andre Swift (RB, CHI) — 27.9
- Josh Allen (QB, BUF) — 27.6
